That's what my cousin, Kathleen Petty, said about her recent double-masectomy and her battle with cancer.  I've known Kathleen all my life; She's about eight years older than me, and when we were younger we would always have Christmas Supper at their place, and she spent the entire summer with us one year when she was in her later teens.  She ( Read more... )

     As I had expected, I didn't go in to the shop on Monday; We decided to keep the Munchkin at home for one more day to finish off her round of medication, and my back really wasn't up to doing much either.  Trixstir came straight home after work, and I headed in to run the bowling alley for the evening.  That turned out to be a waste of time and ( Read more... )

     The Munchkin has slowly been improving, which is more than I can say for myself; My cold has gotten progressively worse, with my head stuffed up so much I can barely breathe, my chest badly congested, and my throat dry and very sore.  Halls cough-drops definitely help my throat, but I can't be sucking on those all day.  I've had the shop ( Read more... )

     trixstir just got back from the hospital with the Munchkin; Apparently she has a case of Croup, a fairly common childhood infection.  According to the staff at the hospital, it's making its way around town, so it's not terribly surprising that she has it.  Now I'm just wondering if my own sore throat came from her, or whether I gave it to her.  I ( Read more... )

I was at the Elk's meeting tonight when I got a text from trixstir; Would I please come to the bowling alley ASAP because she had to leave the Kidling to run it while she took the Munchkin to the doctor!

I excused myself right away and rushed over to the bowling alley where the Kidling told me that Trixstir had rushed the Munchkin to the hospital. ( Read more... )

     Definitely feeling better with each passing day.  As I expected it would, my weight rose up again once I started drinking enough water to really rehydrate myself.  As of this morning, my weight is back up to 300.2 pounds, which still gives me a net loss of more than eight pounds, so I'm happy with that.  My gut is no longer churning, though it ( Read more... )

     My gut feels like I got kicked (or punched) but otherwise I'm feeling a lot better than I did yesterday at 3am.  Looks like this was the standard 24-hour stomach-flu that's been making the rounds all over town.

The Big Question I had to deal with yesterday was whether or not to go in to the shop, as I was expecting a shipment from Briggs ( Read more... )

     Today was my first day back on the job after coming down with and (mostly) recovering from this cold.  I'm not totally convinced that I'm over it; I was coughing and hacking throughout the day (being careful not to spread anything around), and I felt generally lethargic and occasionally dizzy.  The worst part though, was the heat.  Everyone ( Read more... )

     Yup, I'm sick...

Not severely, thankfully, but enough to be miserable.  According to a newspaper article, the "Back to School Flu" is going around and it seems that the Kidling brought it home.  It's not a true Influezna, but it shares many of the same symptoms.  I spent the night tossing and turning, not able to get any real sleep; this ( Read more... )

     Today was supposed to be my "Labour Day" day off, since I had to work the previous Saturday thus pushing my 3-day weekend head one day.  I spent the morning working on paper-work so that I could bill Sears for fixing that garden-tractor, and also tracking down the parts that I had ordered three weeks ago for a customer's Kawasaki engine.  The ( Read more... )